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| Museum Ship in Straßburg starts on 02.05. till 13.05.2007 |
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Our Location: Quai des Belges
 Strasbourg (French: Strasbourg, pronounced /stʀazbuʀ/; Alsatian: Strossburi; German: Straßburg) is the capital and principal city of the Alsace région of northeastern France, with approximately 650,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 1999. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the préfecture (capital) of the Bas-Rhin département.
The city's Germanic name means "town (at the crossing) of roads". Stras- is cognate to the English street from the German equivalent of the word, Straße, while -bourg from the German -burg ("fortress, town") is cognate to the English borough.
Strasbourg is an important centre of manufacturing and engineering, as well as of road, rail and river communications.
Strasbourg is the seat of the Council of Europe, of the European Court of Human Rights and of the European Parliament, though the latter also holds sessions in Brussels.
Strasbourg is situated on the Ill River, where it flows into the Rhine on the frontier with Germany. The German town across the Rhine is Kehl. The city is situated in the Vallée du Rhin (Rhine valley), approximately 20 kms east of the Vosges mountains and 25 kms west of the Black Forest. Winds coming from either direction being generally held up, summer temperatures can be inordinately high. The defective natural ventilation also makes Strasbourg one of the most atmospherically polluted cities of France, although the progressive disappearance of heavy industry as well as effective measures of traffic regulation in and around the city are showing encouraging results.
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